America

Religions and Religion

Catherine Albanese

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781133050025
• eBook ISBN: 9781133709404
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Since its first publication in 1981, AMERICA: RELIGIONS AND RELIGION has become the standard introduction to the study of American religious traditions. Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field of American religions, this textbook has introduced thousands of students to the rich religious diversity that has always been a hallmark of the American religious experience. Beginning with Native American religious traditions and following the course of America's religious history up to the present day, this text gives you the benefit of the author's rigorous scholarship in clear and readily accessible language. This long-awaited new edition explores a variety of recent events and developments, including increasing religious pluralism and, especially, a combinative postpluralism in which different faiths in America subtly begin to borrow from one another. The new edition examines "postethnic" Judaism in the Jewish Renewal movement and other instances, the growing Womenpriest movement among American Catholics, and the development of Islam in America in the light of September 11, 2001. It surveys the "emerging church" movement among liberal evangelicals and others, and follows the growth of a "new spirituality" that is much broader than the New Age movement.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface to the First and Second Editions
• Preface to the Third Edition
• Preface to the Fourth Edition
• Preface to the Fifth Edition
• Introduction: An Elephant in the Dark
• Part 1: Manyness: The Original Cast
• Part 2: Manyness: Newmade in America
• Part 3: Manyness: Patterns of Expansion and Contraction
• Part 4: Oneness: American Religion, American Identity
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Name Index
• Subject Index